The 19th Uncut Playlist Of 2017

Starting the day here with a deep dive into this “Peaceful Protest” comp from RVNG INTL, which I think is available on multiple cassettes at Moogfest in North Carolina this weekend. It’s an ambient response to our calamitous moment, staffed by a bunch of artists I must confess to never having heard before. Just embarked, anyhow, on “The Arts Are The First To Go” by Zach Cooper. Interesting project.

Elsewhere here, more potent environmental music from Janek Schaefer; a second excellent track from the forthcoming Grizzly Bear comeback; Sampha duetting with an extended Curtis Mayfield sample for Richard Russell’s Everything Is Recorded; the always-welcome CRB; the mighty Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires, now adding a little early REM nuance to their Drive-By Truckers gone hardcore melee; and Brigid Mae Power sitting in a field.

A reminder, too, that our new issue is just out (the one with Roger Waters on the cover; more details here), and that Aldous Harding’s “Party”, a record that feels a bit derivative at first but that has grown on me a lot, is also out today. Please enjoy…